<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Can a Brit survive in North America without a driver’s license?]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by jdhlax http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/ Thu, 26 May 2005 06:53:36 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/1 Priorities

This shows what can be done if one is a committed enviro.  Of course, it only works if one lives close enough to bike, but that's another choice that a committed enviro should make.  I live in San Francisco and refuse to own a car.  This will not change unless my job as an environmental lawyer requires it, which it hasn't so far.

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This shows what can be done if one is a committed enviro.  Of course, it only works if one lives close enough to bike, but that's another choice that a committed enviro should make.  I live in San Francisco and refuse to own a car.  This will not change unless my job as an environmental lawyer requires it, which it hasn't so far.

]]> Comment #2 by nathangsm http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/ Thu, 26 May 2005 06:56:54 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/2 No license at 25

When I was 16, my parents wanted me to take driver's ed, which I staunchly refused. At 25, I still have not obtained a license. Between walking and biking, I manage, in Denver, Colorado, but it can be a real pain, when people persist in living in 'burbs...

 -Nathan G S-M

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When I was 16, my parents wanted me to take driver's ed, which I staunchly refused. At 25, I still have not obtained a license. Between walking and biking, I manage, in Denver, Colorado, but it can be a real pain, when people persist in living in 'burbs...

 -Nathan G S-M

]]> Comment #3 by spuddly buddly http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/ Fri, 27 May 2005 04:04:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/3 No license - ever!

Being a city dweller, and a green activist, it only makes sense NOT to have a car. Is it really worth all the money and trouble of trying to drive into any city in Europe? Save your bucks, temper and the environment and leave the car at home.

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Being a city dweller, and a green activist, it only makes sense NOT to have a car. Is it really worth all the money and trouble of trying to drive into any city in Europe? Save your bucks, temper and the environment and leave the car at home.

]]> Comment #4 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/ Sat, 28 May 2005 01:21:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/4 A carfree future? Bushco inc. rules.

http://amazngdrx.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/5/28/892661.html

Here's what a wall street weasel "investment" tout, Louis Navellier, said today in email spam promoting his newsletter.

"Last week, Toyota offered to help GM and Ford put hybrid cars on the road. Two reasons: China is sopping up so much oil, Detroit's gas-guzzlers are rotting on the lots; China will soon flood both Japan and the U.S. with high-quality cars sold for less than Toyota or GM can even make them for."

Toyota helping GM and Ford?

But the neoconmen continuially resist any effort to shift away from dependence on oil? Bushco inc. does not represent the interests of we the people or the jobs we are losing to outsourcing supported by huge corporate tax breaks.

Bushco inc. represents multinational corporate power, and that power has decided to manufacture everything in China,and power it all with fossil and nuclear fuel.

Why? For the bottomline. What is that bottomline?

The consolidation of wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands. That is how absolute greed corrupts absolutely.

Government of, by, and for we the people gets in the way of that agenda, so it must be bankrupted. Isn't that really the main policy in this ongoing Reagan/Bush reactionary devolution?

Investing in the corporate kleptocracy of China furthers that goal. Eventually the national debt owed to multinationals operating with cheap labor and unrestricted pollution in China will make the US government nothing but an empty shell.

A mere figurehead with no power to reign in corporate power, corruption, and greed. The neo-conservative dream of corporate feudalism controlling spaceship earth will be a done deal.

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http://amazngdrx.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/5/28/892661.html

Here's what a wall street weasel "investment" tout, Louis Navellier, said today in email spam promoting his newsletter.

"Last week, Toyota offered to help GM and Ford put hybrid cars on the road. Two reasons: China is sopping up so much oil, Detroit's gas-guzzlers are rotting on the lots; China will soon flood both Japan and the U.S. with high-quality cars sold for less than Toyota or GM can even make them for."

Toyota helping GM and Ford?

But the neoconmen continuially resist any effort to shift away from dependence on oil? Bushco inc. does not represent the interests of we the people or the jobs we are losing to outsourcing supported by huge corporate tax breaks.

Bushco inc. represents multinational corporate power, and that power has decided to manufacture everything in China,and power it all with fossil and nuclear fuel.

Why? For the bottomline. What is that bottomline?

The consolidation of wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands. That is how absolute greed corrupts absolutely.

Government of, by, and for we the people gets in the way of that agenda, so it must be bankrupted. Isn't that really the main policy in this ongoing Reagan/Bush reactionary devolution?

Investing in the corporate kleptocracy of China furthers that goal. Eventually the national debt owed to multinationals operating with cheap labor and unrestricted pollution in China will make the US government nothing but an empty shell.

A mere figurehead with no power to reign in corporate power, corruption, and greed. The neo-conservative dream of corporate feudalism controlling spaceship earth will be a done deal.

]]> Comment #5 by anwrnews http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/ Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:39:19 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/sainsbury-license/5 Give me a break...

If Sainsbury had so much trouble getting around Vancouver without a car, I highly recommend he NOT take up residence anywhere in the USA. I visited Vancouver for a week last year and had no trouble getting around by foot and public transit whatsoever. It's public transit system is a greenie's dream come true compared to systems in the U.S. Now, it might not measure up to systems in Britain and Europe, but still I can muster little sympathy for Sainsbury's travails. Perhaps he lives in one of Vancouver's far-flung suburbs. That might explain it. But the downtown and Univ. of British Colummbia environs have great transit and are very walkable.

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If Sainsbury had so much trouble getting around Vancouver without a car, I highly recommend he NOT take up residence anywhere in the USA. I visited Vancouver for a week last year and had no trouble getting around by foot and public transit whatsoever. It's public transit system is a greenie's dream come true compared to systems in the U.S. Now, it might not measure up to systems in Britain and Europe, but still I can muster little sympathy for Sainsbury's travails. Perhaps he lives in one of Vancouver's far-flung suburbs. That might explain it. But the downtown and Univ. of British Colummbia environs have great transit and are very walkable.

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